An article today in the Decatur (Ala.) Daily about the FTC’s approval of the United Launch Alliance includes this passage:
“Decatur might want to rename itself Space Port America,” said Loren Thompson, Ph.D., a military and aerospace analyst at the Lexington Institute in Arlington, Va., and a Lockheed consultant.
Since Thompson immerses himself in military […]
X Prize 2nd anniversary
Today marks the second anniversary of SpaceShipOne’s capture of the $10-million Ansari X Prize with its second suborbital spaceflight in under a week. (Of course, they didn’t officially get the check until a ceremony in St. Louis the following month; details, details.) MSNBC’s Alan Boyle reflects on the anniversary and asks, in essence: dude, where’s […]